Francisco Varela

Francisco Varela

biologist; director of research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, and professor of cognitive science

The late FRANCISCO VARELA was a biologist; director of research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, and professor of cognitive science and epistemology at the École Polytechnique, in Paris; author ofPrinciples of Biological Autonomy; coauthor with Humberto D. Maturana ofAutopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the LivingandThe Tree of Knowledge,and with Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch ofThe Embodied Mind.